SCANDALS: Sweatshops in the Sun

Most Americans think that child labor is a
Dickensian anachronism that went out with sweatshops, the 60-hour week
and the dark, satanic mills of the 19th century. Yet down on the farm
child labor remains a national scandal. Hundreds of thousands of
children are working in fields all around the country. They labor in
the cherry orchards of Michigan, the peach orchards of Colorado, the
tomato fields of New Jersey, the bean fields of Oregon. The practice is
especially flagrant in California, the richest agricultural state.
After visiting San Joaquin Valley, TIME...